Procrastination, Your New Special Best Friend - How Procrastination Can Help You Be MORE Creative

Just the word “procrastination” sends a shiver down the spine down of most of us who create.

That feeling of knowing you want to be working something, like a new creative project, but other small things seem to keep getting in the way and demanding your attention.

What are some of the most common procrastination techniques you use?

Maybe you have to keep up to date with your email, in case you miss an important message. Or you have to keep checking your favourite sites on the internet, because maybe they’ve added something amazing in the last few minutes you just NEED to see as soon as possible.

Maybe your collection of art books need rearranging because although they’re organised in order by artist, you decide that maybe they be better organised by type of art first, then sub type, THEN artist, to save you time when you need to go to one.

Or maybe you feel you cannot possible create until you’ve eaten that sandwich/ pizza/ cake /(insert-your-favourite-comfort-food-here)...

Any of these sounding familiar?

So, procrastination, what is it good for? Nothing! Except that’s not quite right.

Procrastination has a very vital part to play in your creative life. In fact, it can help you in a special way that almost nothing else can.

And for that reason, procrastination can be no longer seen as the evil that must be avoided at all costs, but actually as something you can use to be MORE creative.

Procrastination actually helps you because it highlights exactly what's really important to you - the things you're avoiding most!

If you didn't want to do them at all, you just wouldn't, you'd forget all about them completely. But because they ARE so important, they keep calling you back.

It's this conflict - the tension between really wanting to create something and having all kinds of procrastination tactics pop up to try to stop that - that causes the pain and the struggle.

If you had no real motivation or desire to create these projects, the procrastination would be out of a job.

Procrastination is like an overpaid top supermodel - if the pay off isn’t worth it, it won’t even bother getting out of bed and showing up.

So think for a moment about your favourite procrastination habits. Notice the patterns and routines. What are the creative projects you’re really avoiding?

They may not be obvious as first. You might be happily creating any number of projects. But somewhere in the back of you mind there’s a niggling feeling that really you’d love to be writing that novel about your childhood summer holidays in India or painting that huge abstract painting you’ve never quite dared to.

Welcome procrastination as your new best friend today.

Let it help you find what it is you really long to create.

Only then can you start making plans and taking action to create those projects that truly matter.

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